Random House New Releases - Business & Economics - Laborhttp://www.randomhouse.com/category/www.randomhouse.com2006-03-13T11:23:00-05:00Saving Capitalism by Robert B. Reichwww.randomhouse.com<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385350570"><img align="right" src="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780385350570" border="1"/></a><h3><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385350570">Saving Capitalism</a> For the Many, Not the Few<br/><b>Written by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=52466">Robert B. Reich</a></h3><b>Hardcover</b>, 336 pages | Knopf | Business & Economics - Economics - Theory; Business & Economics - Labor; Political Science - Economic Policy | <b>$26.95</b> | 978-0-385-35057-0 (0-385-35057-0)<p><b>From the author of <i>Aftershock</i> and <i>The Work of Nation</i>s, his most important book to date--a passionate yet practical, sweeping yet minutely argued, myth-shattering breakdown of what's wrong with our political-economic system, and what it will take to fix it.</b><br><br>Perhaps no one is better acquainted with the intersection of finance and politics than Robert B. Reich, and now he reveals the cycles of power and influence that have perpetuated a new American oligarchy, a shrinking middle class, and the greatest income inequality and wealth disparity in eighty years. He makes clear how centrally problematic our veneration of the "free market" is, and how it has masked the power of the moneyed interests to tilt the market to their benefit. He exposes the falsehoods that have been bolstered by the corruption of our democracy by big corporations and the revolving door between Washington and Wall Street-- that all workers are paid what they're "worth," a higher minimum wage equals fewer jobs, corporations must serve shareholders before employees. Ever the pragmatist, Reich sees hope for reversing our slide toward inequality and diminished opportunity by shoring up the countervailing power of everyone else. Here is a revelatory indictment of our economic status quo and an empowering call to civic action.</p><br clear="all">http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=97803853505702015-10-06T00:30:00-05:00Saving Capitalism by Robert B. Reichwww.randomhouse.com<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385350587"><img align="right" src="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780385350587" border="1"/></a><h3><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780385350587">Saving Capitalism</a> For the Many, Not the Few<br/><b>Written by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=52466">Robert B. Reich</a></h3><b>eBook</b>, 336 pages | Knopf | Business & Economics - Economics - Theory; Business & Economics - Labor; Political Science - Economic Policy | <b>$13.99</b> | 978-0-385-35058-7 (0-385-35058-9)<p><b>From the author of <i>Aftershock</i> and <i>The Work of Nation</i>s, his most important book to date--a passionate yet practical, sweeping yet minutely argued, myth-shattering breakdown of what's wrong with our political-economic system, and what it will take to fix it.</b><br><br>Perhaps no one is better acquainted with the intersection of finance and politics than Robert B. Reich, and now he reveals the cycles of power and influence that have perpetuated a new American oligarchy, a shrinking middle class, and the greatest income inequality and wealth disparity in eighty years. He makes clear how centrally problematic our veneration of the "free market" is, and how it has masked the power of the moneyed interests to tilt the market to their benefit. He exposes the falsehoods that have been bolstered by the corruption of our democracy by big corporations and the revolving door between Washington and Wall Street-- that all workers are paid what they're "worth," a higher minimum wage equals fewer jobs, corporations must serve shareholders before employees. Ever the pragmatist, Reich sees hope for reversing our slide toward inequality and diminished opportunity by shoring up the countervailing power of everyone else. Here is a revelatory indictment of our economic status quo and an empowering call to civic action.</p><br clear="all">http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=97803853505872015-10-06T00:30:00-05:00The Death and Life of American Labor by Stanley Aronowitzwww.randomhouse.com<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781784783006"><img align="right" src="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9781784783006" border="1"/></a><h3><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781784783006">The Death and Life of American Labor</a> Toward a New Workers' Movement<br/><b>Written by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=182942">Stanley Aronowitz</a></h3><b>Trade Paperback</b>, 192 pages | Verso | Political Science - Labor & Industrial Relations; Business & Economics - Labor | <b>$19.95</b> | 978-1-78478-300-6 (1-78478-300-5)<p><p>Union membership in the United States has fallen below 11 percent, the lowest rate since before the New Deal. Labor activist and scholar of the American labor movement Stanley Aronowitz argues that the movement as we have known it for the last 100 years is effectively dead. And he explains how this death has been a long time coming&mdash;the organizing and political principles adopted by U.S. unions at mid-century have taken a terrible toll. In the 1950s, Aronowitz was a factory metalworker.</p><p>In the &rsquo;50s and &rsquo;60s, he directed organizing with the Amalgamated Clothing Workers and the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers. In 1963, he coordinated the labor participation for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Ten years later, the publication of his book <i>False Promises: The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness </i>was a landmark in the study of the U.S. working-class and workers&rsquo; movements.</p><p>Aronowitz draws on this long personal history, reflecting on his continuing involvement in labor organizing, with groups such as the Professional Staff Congress of the City University. He brings a historian&rsquo;s understanding of American workers&rsquo; struggles in taking the long view of the labor movement. Then, in a survey of current initiatives, strikes, organizations, and allies, Aronowitz analyzes the possibilities of labor&rsquo;s rebirth, and sets out a program for a new, broad, radical workers&rsquo; movement.</p></p><br clear="all">http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=97817847830062015-09-15T00:30:00-05:00The Death and Life of American Labor by Stanley Aronowitzwww.randomhouse.com<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781781681947"><img align="right" src="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9781781681947" border="1"/></a><h3><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781781681947">The Death and Life of American Labor</a> Toward a New Worker's Movement<br/><b>Written by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=182942">Stanley Aronowitz</a></h3><b>eBook</b>, 224 pages | Verso | Political Science - Labor & Industrial Relations; Business & Economics - Labor | <b>$26.95</b> | 978-1-78168-194-7 (1-78168-194-5)<p><p>Union membership in the United States has fallen below 11 percent, the lowest rate since before the New Deal. Labor activist and scholar of the American labor movement Stanley Aronowitz argues that the movement as we have known it for the last 100 years is effectively dead. And he explains how this death has been a long time coming&mdash;the organizing and political principles adopted by U.S. unions at mid-century have taken a terrible toll. In the 1950s, Aronowitz was a factory metalworker.</p><p>In the &rsquo;50s and &rsquo;60s, he directed organizing with the Amalgamated Clothing Workers and the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers. In 1963, he coordinated the labor participation for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Ten years later, the publication of his book <i>False Promises: The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness </i>was a landmark in the study of the U.S. working-class and workers&rsquo; movements.</p><p>Aronowitz draws on this long personal history, reflecting on his continuing involvement in labor organizing, with groups such as the Professional Staff Congress of the City University. He brings a historian&rsquo;s understanding of American workers&rsquo; struggles in taking the long view of the labor movement. Then, in a survey of current initiatives, strikes, organizations, and allies, Aronowitz analyzes the possibilities of labor&rsquo;s rebirth, and sets out a program for a new, broad, radical workers&rsquo; movement.</p></p><br clear="all">http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=97817816819472014-10-07T00:30:00-05:00The Death and Life of American Labor by Stanley Aronowitzwww.randomhouse.com<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781781681381"><img align="right" src="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9781781681381" border="1"/></a><h3><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781781681381">The Death and Life of American Labor</a> Toward a New Worker's Movement<br/><b>Written by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=182942">Stanley Aronowitz</a></h3><b>Hardcover</b>, 192 pages | Verso | Political Science - Labor & Industrial Relations; Business & Economics - Labor | <b>$26.95</b> | 978-1-78168-138-1 (1-78168-138-4)<p><p>Union membership in the United States has fallen below 11 percent, the lowest rate since before the New Deal. Labor activist and scholar of the American labor movement Stanley Aronowitz argues that the movement as we have known it for the last 100 years is effectively dead. And he explains how this death has been a long time coming&mdash;the organizing and political principles adopted by U.S. unions at mid-century have taken a terrible toll. In the 1950s, Aronowitz was a factory metalworker.</p><p>In the &rsquo;50s and &rsquo;60s, he directed organizing with the Amalgamated Clothing Workers and the Oil, Chemical and Atomic Workers. In 1963, he coordinated the labor participation for the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom. Ten years later, the publication of his book <i>False Promises: The Shaping of American Working Class Consciousness </i>was a landmark in the study of the U.S. working-class and workers&rsquo; movements.</p><p>Aronowitz draws on this long personal history, reflecting on his continuing involvement in labor organizing, with groups such as the Professional Staff Congress of the City University. He brings a historian&rsquo;s understanding of American workers&rsquo; struggles in taking the long view of the labor movement. Then, in a survey of current initiatives, strikes, organizations, and allies, Aronowitz analyzes the possibilities of labor&rsquo;s rebirth, and sets out a program for a new, broad, radical workers&rsquo; movement.</p></p><br clear="all">http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=97817816813812014-10-07T00:30:00-05:00Buying Time by Wolfgang Streeckwww.randomhouse.com<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781781685495"><img align="right" src="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9781781685495" border="1"/></a><h3><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781781685495">Buying Time</a> The Delayed Crisis of Democratic Capitalism<br/><b>Written by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=220900">Wolfgang Streeck</a></h3><b>Hardcover</b>, 240 pages | Verso | Political Science - Globalization; Business & Economics - Economics - International; Business & Economics - Labor | <b>$95.00</b> | 978-1-78168-549-5 (1-78168-549-5)<p>The financial crisis keeps us on edge and creates a diffuse sense of helplessness. Well-nigh unfathomable problems lead to measures that seem like emergency operations on the open heart of the Western world, performed with no knowledge of the patient's clinical history. The gravity of the situation is matched by the paucity of our understanding of it, and of how it came about in the first place.<br><br>In this book, compiled from his Adorno Lectures given in Frankfurt, Wolfgang Streeck lays bare the roots of the present financial, fiscal and economic crisis, seeing it as part of the long neoliberal transformation of postwar capitalism that began in the 1970s. Linking up with the crisis theories of that decade, he analyses the subsequent tensions and conflicts involving states, governments, voters and capitalist interests&mdash;a process in which the defining focus of the European state system has shifted from taxation through debt to budgetary &ldquo;consolidation.&rdquo; The book then ends by exploring the prospects for a restoration of social and economic stability. <i>Buying Time</i> is a model of enlightenment. It shows that something deeply disturbing underlies the current situation: a metamorphosis of the whole relationship between democracy and capitalism.</p><br clear="all">http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=97817816854952014-07-22T00:30:00-05:00Buying Time by Wolfgang Streeckwww.randomhouse.com<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781781685488"><img align="right" src="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9781781685488" border="1"/></a><h3><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781781685488">Buying Time</a> The Delayed Crisis of Democratic Capitalism<br/><b>Written by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=220900">Wolfgang Streeck</a></h3><b>Trade Paperback</b>, 240 pages | Verso | Political Science - Globalization; Business & Economics - Economics - International; Business & Economics - Labor | <b>$26.95</b> | 978-1-78168-548-8 (1-78168-548-7)<p>The financial and economic crisis that began in 2008 still has the world on tenterhooks. The gravity of the situation is matched by a general paucity of understanding about what is happening and how it started.&#160;<br><br>In this book, based on his 2012 Adorno Lectures given in Frankfurt, Wolfgang Streeck places the crisis in the context of the long neoliberal transformation of postwar capitalism that began in the 1970s. He analyses the subsequent tensions and conflicts involving states, governments, voters and capitalist interests, as expressed in inflation, public debt, and rising private indebtedness. Streeck traces the transformation of the tax state into a debt state, and from there into the consolidation state of today. At the centre of the analysis is the changing relationship between capitalism and democracy, in Europe and elsewhere, and the advancing immunization of the former against the latter.</p><br clear="all">http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=97817816854882014-06-03T00:30:00-05:00Buying Time by Wolfgang Streeckwww.randomhouse.com<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781781686195"><img align="right" src="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9781781686195" border="1"/></a><h3><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781781686195">Buying Time</a> The Delayed Crisis of Democratic Capitalism<br/><b>Written by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=220900">Wolfgang Streeck</a></h3><b>eBook</b>0 | Verso | Political Science - Globalization; Business & Economics - Economics - International; Business & Economics - Labor | <b>$26.95</b> | 978-1-78168-619-5 (1-78168-619-X)<p>The financial crisis keeps us on edge and creates a diffuse sense of helplessness. Well-nigh unfathomable problems lead to measures that seem like emergency operations on the open heart of the Western world, performed with no knowledge of the patient's clinical history. The gravity of the situation is matched by the paucity of our understanding of it, and of how it came about in the first place.<br><br>In this book, compiled from his Adorno Lectures given in Frankfurt, Wolfgang Streeck lays bare the roots of the present financial, fiscal and economic crisis, seeing it as part of the long neoliberal transformation of postwar capitalism that began in the 1970s. Linking up with the crisis theories of that decade, he analyses the subsequent tensions and conflicts involving states, governments, voters and capitalist interests&mdash;a process in which the defining focus of the European state system has shifted from taxation through debt to budgetary &ldquo;consolidation.&rdquo; The book then ends by exploring the prospects for a restoration of social and economic stability. <i>Buying Time</i> is a model of enlightenment. It shows that something deeply disturbing underlies the current situation: a metamorphosis of the whole relationship between democracy and capitalism.</p><br clear="all">http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=97817816861952014-06-03T00:30:00-05:00Intern Nation by Ross Perlinwww.randomhouse.com<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781844678839"><img align="right" src="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9781844678839" border="1"/></a><h3><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781844678839">Intern Nation</a> How to Earn Nothing and Learn Little in the Brave New Economy<br/><b>Written by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=182717">Ross Perlin</a></h3><b>Trade Paperback</b>, 286 pages | Verso | Political Science - Labor & Industrial Relations; Business & Economics - Labor | <b>$14.95</b> | 978-1-84467-883-9 (1-84467-883-0)<p>Millions of young people&#8212;and increasingly some not-so-young people&#8212;now work as interns. They famously shuttle coffee in a thousand magazine offices, legislative backrooms, and Hollywood studios, but they also deliver aid in Afghanistan, map the human genome, and pick up garbage. <i>Intern Nation</i> is the first expos&#233; of the exploitative world of internships. In this witty, astonishing, and serious investigative work, Ross Perlin profiles fellow interns, talks to academics and professionals about what unleashed this phenomenon, and explains why the intern boom is perverting workplace practices around the world.<br><br>The hardcover publication of this book precipitated a torrent of media coverage in the US and UK, and Perlin has added an entirely new afterword describing the growing focus on this woefully underreported story. Insightful and humorous, <i>Intern Nation</i> will transform the way we think about the culture of work.</p><br clear="all">http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=97818446788392012-04-04T00:30:00-05:00There Is Power in a Union by Philip Draywww.randomhouse.com<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307389763"><img align="right" src="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780307389763" border="1"/></a><h3><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307389763">There Is Power in a Union</a> The Epic Story of Labor in America<br/><b>Written by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=7430">Philip Dray</a></h3><b>Trade Paperback</b>, 816 pages | Anchor | History - United States; Law - Labor & Employment; Business & Economics - Labor | <b>$19.95</b> | 978-0-307-38976-3 (0-307-38976-6)<p><p>From the nineteenth-century textile mills of Lowell, Massachusetts, to the triumph of unions in the twentieth century and their waning influence today, the contest between labor and capital for the American bounty has shaped our national experience.<br>&#160;<br>In this stirring new history, Philip Dray shows us the vital accomplishments of organized labor and illuminates its central role in our social, political, economic, and cultural evolution. His epic, character-driven narrative not only restores to our collective memory the indelible story of American labor, it also demonstrates the importance of the fight for fairness and economic democracy, and why that effort remains so urgent today.</p></p><br clear="all">http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=97803073897632011-09-20T00:30:00-05:00The Big Squeeze by Steven Greenhousewww.randomhouse.com<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781400096527"><img align="right" src="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9781400096527" border="1"/></a><h3><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781400096527">The Big Squeeze</a> Tough Times for the American Worker<br/><b>Written by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=79268">Steven Greenhouse</a></h3><b>Trade Paperback</b>, 384 pages | Anchor | Business & Economics - Labor; Law - Labor & Employment | <b>$16.00</b> | 978-1-4000-9652-7 (1-4000-9652-9)<p>Why, in the world's most affluent nation, are so many corporations squeezing their employees dry? In this fresh, carefully researched book, <i>New York Times </i>reporter Steven Greenhouse explores the economic, political, and social trends that are transforming America's workplaces, including the decline of the social contract that created the world's largest middle class and guaranteed job security and good pensions. We meet all kinds of workers&#8212;white-collar and blue-collar, high-tech and low-tech, middle-class and low-income&#8212;as we see shocking examples of injustice, including employees who are locked in during a hurricane or fired after suffering debilitating, on-the-job injuries. <br><br>With pragmatic recommendations on what government, business and labor should do to alleviate the economic crunch, <b>The Big Squeeze</b><i> </i>is a balanced, consistently revealing look at a major American crisis.</p><br clear="all">http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=97814000965272009-02-10T00:30:00-05:00Supercapitalism by Robert B. Reichwww.randomhouse.com<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307277992"><img align="right" src="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780307277992" border="1"/></a><h3><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307277992">Supercapitalism</a> The Transformation of Business, Democracy, and Everyday Life<br/><b>Written by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=52466">Robert B. Reich</a></h3><b>Trade Paperback</b>, 288 pages | Vintage | Business & Economics - Labor; Political Science - Democracy; Business & Economics - Government & Business | <b>$15.95</b> | 978-0-307-27799-2 (0-307-27799-2)<p>From one of America's foremost economic and political thinkers comes a vital analysis of our new hypercompetitive and turbo-charged global economy and the effect it is having on American democracy. With his customary wit and insight, Reich shows how widening inequality of income and wealth, heightened job insecurity, and corporate corruption are merely the logical results of a system in which politicians are more beholden to the influence of business lobbyists than to the voters who elected them. Powerful and thought-provoking, <i>Supercapitalism</i> argues that a clear separation of politics and capitalism will foster an enviroment in which both business and government thrive, by putting capitalism in the service of democracy, and not the other way around.</p><br clear="all">http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=97803072779922008-09-09T00:30:00-05:00The Big Squeeze by Steven Greenhousewww.randomhouse.com<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307268631"><img align="right" src="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780307268631" border="1"/></a><h3><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307268631">The Big Squeeze</a> <br/><b>Written by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=79268">Steven Greenhouse</a></h3><b>eBook</b>, 320 pages | Anchor | Business & Economics - Labor; Law - Labor & Employment | <b>$13.99</b> | 978-0-307-26863-1 (0-307-26863-2)<p>Why, in the world's most affluent nation, are so many corporations squeezing their employees dry? In this fresh, carefully researched book, <i>New York Times </i>reporter Steven Greenhouse explores the economic, political, and social trends that are transforming America's workplaces, including the decline of the social contract that created the world's largest middle class and guaranteed job security and good pensions. We meet all kinds of workers&#8212;white-collar and blue-collar, high-tech and low-tech, middle-class and low-income&#8212;as we see shocking examples of injustice, including employees who are locked in during a hurricane or fired after suffering debilitating, on-the-job injuries. <br><br>With pragmatic recommendations on what government, business and labor should do to alleviate the economic crunch, <b>The Big Squeeze</b><i> </i>is a balanced, consistently revealing look at a major American crisis.<br><br><br><i>From the Trade Paperback edition.</i></p><br clear="all">http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=97803072686312008-04-15T00:30:00-05:00Supercapitalism by Robert B. Reichwww.randomhouse.com<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307267856"><img align="right" src="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780307267856" border="1"/></a><h3><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780307267856">Supercapitalism</a> <br/><b>Written by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=52466">Robert B. Reich</a></h3><b>eBook</b>0 | Vintage | Business & Economics - Labor; Political Science - Democracy; Business & Economics - Government & Business | <b>$13.99</b> | 978-0-307-26785-6 (0-307-26785-7)<p>From one of America's foremost economic and political thinkers comes a vital analysis of our new hypercompetitive and turbo-charged global economy and the effect it is having on American democracy. With his customary wit and insight, Reich shows how widening inequality of income and wealth, heightened job insecurity, and corporate corruption are merely the logical results of a system in which politicians are more beholden to the influence of business lobbyists than to the voters who elected them. Powerful and thought-provoking, <i>Supercapitalism</i> argues that a clear separation of politics and capitalism will foster an enviroment in which both business and government thrive, by putting capitalism in the service of democracy, and not the other way around.<br><br><br><i>From the Trade Paperback edition.</i></p><br clear="all">http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=97803072678562007-09-04T00:30:00-05:00Fast Boat to China by Andrew Rosswww.randomhouse.com<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781400095544"><img align="right" src="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9781400095544" border="1"/></a><h3><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781400095544">Fast Boat to China</a> High-Tech Outsourcing and the Consequences of Free Trade: Lessons from Shanghai<br/><b>Written by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=51066">Andrew Ross</a></h3><b>Trade Paperback</b>, 320 pages | Vintage | Political Science - Globalization; Business & Economics - Labor | <b>$15.95</b> | 978-1-4000-9554-4 (1-4000-9554-9)<p>Most Americans today are aware that jobs are being outsourced to China, India, and other nations at an alarming rate. From factory jobs to white-collar, high-tech positions, the exporting of labor is one of the most controversial issues in America.Yet few people know much about the other end &#8212; about the people who are actually working these jobs and how their own lives have been throw into tumult by these new economic forces. Andrew Ross spent a year in China, interviewing local employees and their managers in Taiwan, Shanghai, and the far western provinces. In this engaging and informative book, he shows how the Chinese workforce has inherited many of the same worries as American workers, such as job instability, long hours, and awareness of their own expendability. He reports on the daily reality of corporate free trade and explores the growing competition between China and India. This is an eye-opening exploration of an unseen side of our globalized world.</p><br clear="all">http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=97814000955442007-06-12T00:30:00-05:00Fast Boat to China by Andrew Rosswww.randomhouse.com<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780375424403"><img align="right" src="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780375424403" border="1"/></a><h3><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780375424403">Fast Boat to China</a> Corporate Flight and the Consequences of Free Trade; Lessons from Shanghai<br/><b>Written by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=51066">Andrew Ross</a></h3><b>eBook</b>0 | Vintage | Business & Economics - Labor; Political Science - Labor & Industrial Relations | <b>$13.99</b> | 978-0-375-42440-3 (0-375-42440-7)<p>Most Americans today are aware that jobs are being outsourced to China, India, and other nations at an alarming rate. From factory jobs to white-collar, high-tech positions, the exporting of labor is one of the most controversial issues in America.Yet few people know much about the other end &#8212; about the people who are actually working these jobs and how their own lives have been throw into tumult by these new economic forces. Andrew Ross spent a year in China, interviewing local employees and their managers in Taiwan, Shanghai, and the far western provinces. In this engaging and informative book, he shows how the Chinese workforce has inherited many of the same worries as American workers, such as job instability, long hours, and awareness of their own expendability. He reports on the daily reality of corporate free trade and explores the growing competition between China and India. This is an eye-opening exploration of an unseen side of our globalized world.<br><br><br><i>From the Trade Paperback edition.</i></p><br clear="all">http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=97803754244032006-04-04T00:30:00-05:00Wobblies! by Sabrina Joneswww.randomhouse.com<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781844675258"><img align="right" src="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9781844675258" border="1"/></a><h3><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9781844675258">Wobblies!</a> A Graphic History of the Industrial Workers of the World<br/><b>Edited by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=182703">Paul Buhle</a> and <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=183652">Nicole Schulman</a><br> <b>Contribution by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=183653">Mike Alewitz</a>, <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=183654">Sue Coe</a> and <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=183655">Sabrina Jones</a></h3><b>Trade Paperback</b>, 320 pages | Verso | History - United States - 20th Century; Business & Economics - Labor | <b>$29.95</b> | 978-1-84467-525-8 (1-84467-525-4)<p>The stories of the hard-rock miners&rsquo; shooting wars, young Elizabeth Gurly Flynn (the &ldquo;Rebel Girl&rdquo; of contemporary sheet music), the first sit-down strikes and Free Speech fights, Emma Goldman and the struggle for birth control access, the Pageant for Paterson orchestrated in Madison Square Garden, bohemian radicals John Reed and Louise Bryant, field-hand revolts and lumber workers&rsquo; strikes, wartime witch hunts, government prosecutions and mob lynching, Mexican-American uprisings in Baja, and Mexican peasant revolts led by Wobblies, hilarious and sentimental songs created and later revived&#8212;all are here, and much, much more. <br><br>The IWW, which has been organizing workers since 1905, is often cited yet elusive to scholars because of its eclectic and controversial cultural and social character. <i>Wobblies!</i> presents the IWW whole, scripted and drawn by old-time and younger Wobbly and IWW-inspired artists. <br><br>Contributors include Carlos Cortez (former editor of the <i>Industrial Worker</i>), Harvey Pekar (author of <i>American Splendor</i>), Peter Kuper (<i>MAD&rsquo;s Spy vs. Spy</i>), Sue Coe, Seth Tobocman, Chris Cardinale, Ryan Inzana, Spain Rodriques, Trina Robbins, Sharon Rudahl, and the circle of artists for <i>World War 3 Illustrated</i>.</p><br clear="all">http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=97818446752582005-04-17T00:30:00-05:00Three Strikes by Dana Frankwww.randomhouse.com<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780807050132"><img align="right" src="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780807050132" border="1"/></a><h3><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780807050132">Three Strikes</a> Miners, Musicians, Salesgirls, and the Fighting Spirit of Labor's Last Century<br/><b>Written by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=120346">Howard Zinn</a>, <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=120127">Robin D.G. Kelley</a> and <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=120246">Dana Frank</a></h3><b>Trade Paperback</b>, 184 pages | Beacon Press | History - United States - 20th Century; Business & Economics - Labor; History | <b>$19.00</b> | 978-0-8070-5013-2 (0-8070-5013-X)<p>Three renowned historians present stirring tales of labor: Howard Zinn tells the grim tale of the Ludlow Massacre, a drama of beleaguered immigrant workers, Mother Jones, and the politics of corporate power in the age of the robber barons. Dana Frank brings to light the little-known story of a successful sit-in conducted by the 'counter girls' at the Detroit Woolworth's during the Great Depression. Robin D. G. Kelley's story of a movie theater musicians' strike in New York asks what defines work in times of changing technology.</p><br clear="all">http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=97808070501322002-09-16T00:30:00-05:00The Future of Success by Robert B. Reichwww.randomhouse.com<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780375725128"><img align="right" src="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780375725128" border="1"/></a><h3><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780375725128">The Future of Success</a> Working and Living in the New Economy<br/><b>Written by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=52466">Robert B. Reich</a></h3><b>Trade Paperback</b>, 304 pages | Vintage | Social Science - Sociology; Business & Economics - Labor | <b>$14.95</b> | 978-0-375-72512-8 (0-375-72512-1)<p>If you think it&#8217;s getting harder to both make a living and make a life, economist and former secretary of labor Robert Reich agrees with you. Americans may be earning more than ever before, but we&#8217;re paying a steep price: we&#8217;re working longer, seeing our families less, and our communities are fragmenting.<br><br>With the clarity and insight that are his hallmarks, Reich delineates what success has come to mean in our time. He demonstrates that although we have more choices as consumers, and investors, the choices themselves are undermining the rest of our lives. It is getting harder for people to be confident of what they will be earning next year, or even next month. At the same time, our society is splitting into socially stratified enclaves--the wealthier walled off and gated, the poorer isolated and ignored. Although the trends he discusses are powerful, they are not irreversible, and Reich makes provocative suggestions for how we might create a more balanced society and more satisfying lives. Some of his ideas may surprise you; all should spark a healthy&#8211;and essential&#8211;national debate.<i><br></i></p><br clear="all">http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=97803757251282002-01-08T00:30:00-05:00The Future of Success by Robert B. Reichwww.randomhouse.com<a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780375413438"><img align="right" src="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/catalog_cover.pperl?9780375413438" border="1"/></a><h3><a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=9780375413438">The Future of Success</a> <br/><b>Written by</b> <a href="http://www.randomhouse.com/author/results.pperl?authorid=52466">Robert B. Reich</a></h3><b>eBook</b>0 | Vintage | Business & Economics - Labor | <b>$13.99</b> | 978-0-375-41343-8 (0-375-41343-X)<p>If you think it&#8217;s getting harder to both make a living and make a life, economist and former secretary of labor Robert Reich agrees with you. Americans may be earning more than ever before, but we&#8217;re paying a steep price: we&#8217;re working longer, seeing our families less, and our communities are fragmenting.<br><br>With the clarity and insight that are his hallmarks, Reich delineates what success has come to mean in our time. He demonstrates that although we have more choices as consumers, and investors, the choices themselves are undermining the rest of our lives. It is getting harder for people to be confident of what they will be earning next year, or even next month. At the same time, our society is splitting into socially stratified enclaves--the wealthier walled off and gated, the poorer isolated and ignored. Although the trends he discusses are powerful, they are not irreversible, and Reich makes provocative suggestions for how we might create a more balanced society and more satisfying lives. Some of his ideas may surprise you; all should spark a healthy&#8211;and essential&#8211;national debate.<i><br></i><br><br><br><i>From the Trade Paperback edition.</i></p><br clear="all">http://www.randomhouse.com/catalog/display.pperl?isbn=97803754134382001-04-17T00:30:00-05:00